(Insomnia)
Aconite Acon
Sleeplessness after midnight, with anxiety, restlessness and tossing about from arterial excitement; eyes closed, caused by fear, fright, anxiety; anxious, vivid dreams; SLEEPLESSNESS FROM A NERVOUS FEAR THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO SLEEP, or from a local irritation, especially in the intestinal tract; sleeplessness of infants and of the aged.
Agaricus Agar
Cannot get asleep, though very tired, on account of many ideas crowding upon him (Fluor. ac.); weary and drowsy by day sleepless at night, from OVERWORK AT DESK.
Agnus castus Agn
Sleeplessness, wakes often as if frightened; anxious dreams, which start him from sleep and keep him awake.
Aloe Aloe
Sleeplessness on account of itching and burning in anus; from hepatic or intestinal troubles; cold hands and feet.
Alumina Alum
Lies awake from crowding of ideas or fancies, or from heaviness in his arms; restless, unrefreshing night sleep, feet too warm, starts frightened, muttering and crying, palpitations; on awaking, weak and faint, (>) by eating.
Ambra Ambr
Nervous and hysterical sleeplessness, after worry in business, from sexual excitement, cramps in calves at night; body cold; anxious dreams; awakens weak and languid; he cannot sleep and does not know the reason.
Anacardium Anac
Restless and sleepless on account of itching, cannot keep still; legs start on going to sleep; uneasiness, every other night, prevents sleep.
Antimonium tart Ant-t
Sleepy, but as soon as she closes eyes, sensation as if breath would leave her body, and she awakes, gasping for breath.
Apium grav Ap-g
Sleeplessness, but the LOSS OF SLEEP CAUSES NO FATIGUE.
Aranea diad Aran
Persistent sleeplessness from excessive hyperaesthesia, chiefly of skin; sensation of creeping of ants all over chest, anguish and gaping.
Argentum met Arg-m
Cannot fall asleep easily, and sleep is restless; as soon as she sinks into a slumber an ELECTRIC SHOCK through the whole body, or through single, limbs, interrupts sleep; palpitations, nausea; seminal emissions during dreamy sleep; fatigue and prostration of awaking.
Argentum nit Arg-n
Kept awake by fancies and images hovering before his mind, after long, wearisome, fatiguing night-watching; short sleep, awakened often by attacks of suffocation, must rise and open window; cannot sleep on account of nervousness.
Arnica Arn
Kept awake till 2 or 3 A.M. (Calc.) by heat, restlessness and constant desire to change position, (>) by lying across bed, head hanging down; wavelike motions passing through brain; excruciating pains in brain and eyes, which feel as if drawn inward.
Arsenicum Ars
Blood degeneration, malnutrition, with nervous exhaustion, anguish, driving out of bed, changes to sofa or chair and then back to bed, cannot rest in any place, changes continually, which fatigues him (Iod. has the restlessness, but not the fatigue of Ars.); dyspeptic insomnia; excessive prostration with the restlessness; (<) after midnight.
Aurum met Aur
Awake all night, no pain; no lassitude or sleepiness in the morning (Ap.); (<) after midnight; very wakeful from great mental activity; erotic dreams and emissions arouse him from sleep.
Baptisia Bapt
Restless from 3 A.M. till morning; tosses abut, cannot sleep; head and body feel scattered about bed; wandering of mind; (<) on awaking; parts rested or feel very painful, and aching all over.
Baryta carb Bar-c
Sleepy and cannot sleep, hungry and cannot eat; awakes often at night, feels too hot, soles feel bruised; inward restlessness, moaning and groaning in sleep.
Belladonna Bell
Sleeplessness, especially of plethoric children, from nervous excitement, from local congestion, from irritation in various parts; flushed face, headache; anguish and restlessness; starting on first falling asleep; moaning and tossing about; drowsy evenings, but no sleep follows, and feels in the morning as if he had not slept enough.
Bryonia Bry
Sleeplessness on account of uneasiness in the blood and anxiety; thoughts crowd one upon another; night very restless, disturbed by frequent dreams; no sleep before midnight, on account of frequent shivering sensation over one arm and foot, followed by sweat; prattling, murmuring delirium, especially of business.
Cactus grand Cact
Sleepless without cause or from arterial excitement and pulsation in ears and pit of stomach, with silent sadness of mind; can hardly find a place for ease, must be bolstered up to rest comfortably; worst sleep towards day.
Cadmium Cadm
Annoying protracted sleeplessness, when he goes to sleep he stops breathing and wakes up suffocating, and fears to go to sleep; (<) AFTER SLEEP, WHETHER IN DAYTIME OR NIGHT; sleeps mostly with open eyes.
Caladium Calad
He is afraid to go to sleep and does not know why, (>) after short sleep; wants to lie down in the morning again; restless sleep, with heat, is obliged to uncover, starts from slumber at slightest noise.
Calcarea carb Calc
Cannot sleep, lies awake night after night; visions on closing eyes, restlessness, as if very busy, without accomplishing anything and feels weak; sleeplessness from overactivity of mind, the same ideas always disturb him; fidgets in arms and legs; insomnia during dentition.
Camphora Camph
Sleeplessness alternating with coma; afraid to go to bed, suddenly all sleep is gone, eyes open against will and awful sensations disturb him.
Cannabis ind Cann-i
Insomnia of drunkards with hallucinations, often of a pleasant kind; nightmare every night as soon as he falls asleep.
Capsicum Caps
Sleepless from emotions, from homesickness, from cough; screaming in sleep, which is full of dreams; restless.
Carbo veg Carb-v
RESPIRATION STOPPED ENTIRELY ON FALLING ASLEEP; insomnia, full of dreams, great uneasiness of body, awakens often after midnight from cold limbs, especially knees; bad effects from night- watching and revelling.
Causticum Caust
Sleepless on account of dry heat; very uneasy all nights; after a short sleep awakened by anxiety and restlessness, cannot sleep in any position, must sit up; involuntary throwing of head from
side to side until exhaustion brings on sleep; starting from sleep, as in fright; BAD EFFECTS FROM NIGHT-WATCHING.
Chamomilla Cham
Sleeplessness from nervousness; from local irritations, such as worms or indigestible substances in stomach and intestines; during dentition; after hepatic disease; great restlessness; moaning, starting and tossing about; talking in sleep; irritable and peevish.
China Chin
Restless night-sleep, with dreams, causing starting and anxiety when awaking form those dreams finds it difficult to rouse up and anxiety continues, especially when caused by drinking tea, or in slow reconvalescence from severe acute disease; waking after midnight in profuse sweat; snoring during inspiration when falling asleep, and puffing of the cheeks at each expiration.
Chininum sulph Chin-s
Sleeplessness from overstimulation of the nervous system.
Chloral Chlol
INSOMNIA FROM OVERFATIGUE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL; during sleep stertorous breathing, with loud snoring in any position; nightmare.
Cimicifuga Cimic
(Macrotin) - For DRUNKARDS who are suffering from effects of stimulation and passing through the horrors of delirium tremens; for opium eaters who try to break the evil habit; for sufferers from the effects of protracted muscular strain, from toil, watching and exposure. INTENSE PROSTRATION, pain at the base of the brain, extending to nape of neck or spreading over shoulders; crushing mental depression; distressing tremulousness of whole body; great restlessness the whole night, imagines strange objects in room, under bed; cannot sleep, because she feels numb all over; after retiring, jerking commences on the side on which he is lying, must change position; children wake suddenly at night terrified and trembling, covered with cold, clammy sweat; insomnia in nervous, hysterical women, from irritation of ovaries and uterus; insomnia in puerperal mania, with destructive rage; during melancholia.
Cina Cina
Sleeplessness with restlessness, crying and lamentations; child will not sleep unless rocked or kept in constant motion; awakes from sleep trembling and frightened, screams and will not be pacified.
Cistus can Cist
Insomnia from dryness of throat or flatulence, constantly swallows saliva, must get up; dryness (<) after sleep.
Cocculus Cocc
THE SLIGHTEST LOSS OF SLEEP TELLS ON HIM, even causing convulsions; as soon as she drops into a sleep, feeling as if a cobweb were let down over her whole person, causing numbness; insomnia from night-watching, from hysteric nervousness, from mental activity and overexertion of memory; constant desire to sleep, but sleep is restless, interrupted by frequent wakings, and startings, so that in the morning he is still sleepy and tired out.
Codeinum Cod
INABILITY TO SLEEP, YET LYING QUIETLY AND RESTFULLY AT NIGHT, full of pleasant fancies, but conscious of all surroundings and feeling refreshed in the morning; or sleep disturbed by frightful dreams; awakes unrefreshed in the morning; sleep constantly disturbed by severe night cough.
Coffea Coff
Sleeplessness form overexcitement of mind and body, from joy or agreeable surprise, from long watching, from excessive use of coffee; all the senses are more acute; persistent insomnia of children, without cause.
Colchicum Colch
Debility following loss of sleep, awakes unrefreshed and tired in the morning, with loss of appetite, bad taste and nausea; insomnia because he cannot lie on left side, on which he is accustomed to go to sleep.
Colocynthis Coloc
Sleeplessness and restlessness after anger; sleeps badly, often wakes tired.
Conium Con
Sleep interrupted or PREVENTED BY DRY, TEASING COUGH; restless sleep at night from heat of body and twitching of arms and hands; much depression with weeping; bad dreams; disposition to sleep in the early morning and by day; cold and torpid legs.
Crotalus cas Crot-c
Insomnia, dreams about the dead when she falls asleep; great sadness; her thoughts dwell on death continually, especially when alone.
Crotalus hor Crot-h
Insomnia as soon as he dozes off he DREAMS OF DEAD PERSONS; sleeplessness from nervous and mental distress, connected with bodily suffering, but out of all proportion to the suffering; CHRONIC INSOMNIA.
Cuprum Cupr
Nervous excitability, with great prostration of body; constant restlessness; driving one out of bed, with groaning and desire to escape; child awakes cross and irritable, kicking the clothes off and striking every one about it (Bell).
Cypripedium Cypr
CHILDREN AWAKE AT NIGHT FROM SLEEP UNNATURALLY BRIGHT AND PLAYFUL, and evidence no desire to go to sleep again (Coff.); insomnia from nervous exhaustion, especially where the system has been weakened by long sickness, as from chronic uterine or ovarian complaints.
Digitalis Dig
Sleep uncomfortable and restless from the irregular distribution of the blood; many dreams; starts up from sleep dreaming that he is falling from a great height; awakes with anxious and distressed feeling proceeding from cardiac region; GLOOMY FOREBODINGS INCIDENT TO HEART DISEASE: deep sighing, slow breathing; constant desire to urinate.
Dioscorea Dios
Cannot compose himself to sleep, restless all night, full of dreams; when falling asleep, perspires freely and wakes unrefreshed and languid; sleep full of lascivious dreams; insomnia from too intent thinking, awakes with bitter mouth and pains in bowels.
Dulcamara Dulc
Sleep restless after midnight, (<) after 3 A.M.; gets up at night and walks about the room, a sinking sensation all over, feels dizzy in the morning, with trembling and weakness.
Elaps coral Elaps
SLEEPLESSNESS FROM LANCINATING HEADACHE: dreams of dead persons, of business.
Ferrum Ferr
Insomnia from excessive use of tea; in pneumonia and chlorosis; anxious tossing in bed after midnight; can lie only on back at night; remitting pains; (<) at night, driving one out of bed, (>) by motion;
Fluoric acid Fl-ac
Sleeplessness, NO INCLINATION TO SLEEP AND A SHORT NAP SUFFICES TO REFRESH HIM (Meph.)
Gelsemium Gels
Insomnia from nervous irritation arising from bad or exciting news; from fright, from the anticipation of an unusual ordeal, from ovarian disease, from asthenic fevers, from chronic spinal trouble; during pregnancy or after labor; sleeplessness from mental overwork or debauch exhausting the vital force, patient is quiet, dull and stupid; he is on the verge of dropping to sleep and then becomes again wide awake or lies in an half-waking state, with incoherent talking; chronic cerebral irritation and pulsation in head and body; excessive use of tobacco; hypertrophy of heart.
Grindelia Grin
Respiration is stopped entirely on falling asleep, and is not resumed until awakened by the suffocation resulting (Carb. v.); PARESIS OF PNEUMOGASTRIC.
Guaiacum Guai
Frequent awaking from sleep as if falling (Phos. ac.); awakes unrefreshed, everything seems too tight, clothes feel damp.
Hyoscyamus Hyos
Sleep too full of dreams from cerebral excitement or feverishness, arising from jealousy, unhappy love, fight or during progress of febrile diseases or convulsions; insomnia of children when they twitch in sleep, cry out and tremble, and awaken frightened; CHILD WAKES UP HUNGRY FROM SLEEP, the face of purplish color; suitable to irritable and excitable persons, especially pregnant and parturient women.
Hypericum Hyper
Brain has been strained by intense and continuous exertion after injuries to nerves, and insomnia follows.
Ignatia Ign
Sleeplessness form grief, fright, from suppressed mental suffering; in children after punishment, during dentition, they waken from sleep with piercing cries and tremble all over; from hysteria; dreams of one subject the whole night through.
Iodum Iod
Sleepless after midnight or restless sleep, with vivid, anxious dreams and inclination to move about.
Kali brom Kali-br
Insomnia from anaemia, especially during or after acute and painful diseases; NIGHT-TERRORS, patient wakes up frightened from terrific visions in his dreams; patient is nervous, and feels better when engaged at some work or walking about, awakes form a profound sleep and does not know where he is.
Kreosotum Kreos
Sleeplessness, (<) before midnight, child moans constantly or dozes with half-open eyes; tosses about all night without any apparent cause; starts when scarcely fallen asleep; dentition.
Lac caninum Lac-c
Restlessness when attempting to sleep; rolling and tossing about all night; frequent sighing; urinates often during the night, with some vesical tenesmus (Lac defl.); excessive nervous debility.
Lachesis Lach
Insomnia from cerebral irritation, with mental excitement, caused by blood-poisoning; during climaxis or in the course of female complaints; persistent sleeplessness; sleepless in the evening, with talkativeness; awakes at night and cannot go to sleep again; sleep prevented by starting and jumping; children toss about, moaning, during sleep; PATIENT (<) FROM SLEEP, HE SLEEPS INTO AN AGGRAVATION.
Lachnanthes Lachn
Sleepless, peevish, with circumscribed red cheeks and increasing dryness of throat; wakeful at night, without feeling weak.
Lactuca Lact
Sleeplessness, night very restless, with many vivid dreams; voluptuous dreams, with emission, during the morning sleep.
Lilium tigr Lil-t
Insomnia from ovarian or uterine irritation, especially from subinvolution and displacements; restless sleep, with wild feeling in head and frightful, laborious dreams; everything seems too hot; tries hard to go to sleep quickly but cannot fall asleep.
Lycopodium Lyc
Sleepy during day; wakeful at night, mind too active; sleep restless, at ease in no position; child sleeps with half-open eyes and throws its head from side to side, with moaning; wakes often; quite awake at 4 A.M., awakes terrified, kicks and scolds, feels unrefreshed; hungry when awaking at night; sleepless first part of night from flatulence and functional palpitations.
Magnesia mur Mag-m
Insomnia and constipation, stool like sheep's dung; sleepless on account of nightly heat, with thirst; body restless as soon as he closes eyes; shocks through body at night, while walking; unrefreshing sleep; tired in the morning.
Magnesia phos Mag-p
Insomnia from nervousness, emotions and brain-fag.
Mephitis Meph
Sleeplessness from fidgets in left side, both legs and arms; a short sleep seems to refresh (Fluor. ac.).
Mercurius Merc
Sleeplessness during bilious or irritative fevers and from hepatic affections; from ebullition of blood and anxiety, with beating at the pit of stomach, sometimes accompanied by profuse sweats or with extreme depression of spirit and other nervous symptoms; cannot lie on right side.
Mercurius cor Merc-c
Sleeplessness on account of vertigo and anxiety, in law states and phagedenic conditions from syphilitic blood-poison.
Mercurius sol Merc
DREADS TO FALL ASLEEP, tosses about without knowing why, (<) after midnight and feels unrefreshed in the morning; on falling asleep, she starts up as from a great fright and is anxious till fully awake.
Moschus Mosch
Sleepless from nervous excitement, without any other ailments; nights restless, full of dreams of strife and effort; cannot lie long on one spot, for the part on which he lay becomes painful as if sprained or broken; sleep uneasy, wakes every half hour and throws off covering; feels too hot, yet does not perspire; after exhausting fevers.
Murex Murx
Awakes early, but with a headache; SLEEP PREVENTED BY COLD EXTREMITIES; crowding of ideas or nervousness.
Natrum mur Nat-m
Tormenting sleeplessness after gnawing boisterous grief; constantly chilly sensations, wants to be wrapped up, subjectively cold feet; on falling asleep, twitching in limbs and electric shocks through whole body; sleep often interrupted by thirst and urging to urinate; complete insomnia at night, from simple wakefullness, without feeling sick, but feels melancholy and despondent, very weak after passing a restless night, looks worn and sad.
Natrum sulph Nat-s
Constant waking, with unpleasant fantastic dreams; after a few hours' SLEEP HE IS AWAKENED BY A FIT OF ASTHMA.
Nitric acid Nit-ac
Suffering from loss of sleep night after night; effects of long- continued strain on mind, requiring mental and bodily attention; consequences of grief for loss or threatened loss of that which is most dear.
Nux vomica Nux-v
Sleeplessness caused by excessive study late at night and no exercise in daytime, hence DYSPEPTIC INSOMNIA, awakes tired and unrefreshed after a short morning sleep with headache, bitter taste, coated tongue, etc. Insomnia from a recent drunk or a surfeit of a late and rich supper, causing flatulence and constipation, functional palpitations; gastric and abdominal ailments; loud breathing during sleep (China.).
Opium Op
Insomnia from sudden shock caused by bad news, with dullness and dazed depression (Acon., agonizing restlessness); in old persons or children; in drunkards; stupid sleeplessness, with frightful visions before midnight; sleepy, but cannot go to sleep; insomnia with acuteness of hearing; slight or distant noises keep her awake.
Passiflora incar Passi
Sleeplessness from nervous exhaustion, as from severe acute diseases, from mental overwork with headache.
Phosphorus Phos
Cannot fall asleep before midnight, must get up; after lying down he falls asleep, but awakes often, feels so hot; insomnia of the aged; memory feeble, giddiness, trembling gait; sleeplessness following intense mental overwork and anxiety, with headache, confusion and distressing vertigo; sleeplessness form physical nervous exhaustion, caused by excessive sexual indulgence or onanism; from spinal troubles and hepatic affections.
Physostigma Phys
Awaking at night in fear from horrible visions; sleepy, but unable to sleep from fear of the awakening.
Phytolacca Phyt
Restless at night, pain drives him out of bed; feels wretched on awaking.
Piper meth Pip-m
Sleeplessness and restlessness, compelling change of position (Ars., Rhus); occipital congestion, sore inside and tender outside.
Plantago Plan
Insomnia from abdominal troubles, cannot sleep after 4 A.M., tosses about or falls into a dreamy sleep, full of gloom and fright, which rouses him up.
Platina Plat
Insomnia from extreme nervous excitability; intense nervous wakefullness, especially from hysteria and ovarian irritation, wakes in the morning feverish and unrefreshed, has difficulty in collecting his senses, with disposition to uncover legs before waking.
Plumbum Plb
Sleep prevented at night by colicky pains; great sleepiness during day; shooting, darting pains in tracks of larger nerves alternating with colic.
Psorinum Psor
Sick babies will not sleep day or night, but worry, fret and cry; sleepy by day, sleepless at night from intolerable itching; dyspnoea; vivid dreams continue after waking or CANNOT GET RID OF THE ONE PERSISTENT IDEA.
Pulsatilla Puls
Sleepless after late supper, or eating too much; from ideas crowding on mind forepart of night, sleeps late in morning; wide awake in the evening, does not want to go to bed; first sleep restless, sound sleep when it is time to get up; wakes languid and unrefreshed; insomnia of neurasthenic young women suffering from menstrual irregularities.
Raphanus sat Raph
Insomnia from immoderate sexual desire.
Rhododendron Rhod
Cannot go to sleep or remain asleep UNLESS HER LEGS ARE CROSSED; deep, heavy sleep before midnight, but sleepless after midnight; morning sleep disturbed by pain and restless in body.
Rhus tox Rhus-t
Insomnia in typhoid and other zymotic diseases; dreams of great exertion, as rowing, swimming; restlessness and tossing about, cannot find ease in any position; after a short sleep he is suddenly awakened by a noise in one ear like the crack of pistol and cannot go to sleep any more; incessant yawning; yet he cannot get asleep before midnight, from wakefullness, heat, but no thirst; tired-out feeling after a long walk; fidgety legs.
Sambucus Samb
STARTING FORM SLEEP WITH SUFFOCATION; head and hands bluish, puffy; as soon as he wakes up begins to sweat, while during sleep he has hot face, but sweat has dried up.
Scutellaria Scut
Sleeplessness from neurasthenia without any other apparent cause sudden waking up from disagreeable dreams, from nightmare, from exciting emotions, or against PLEASANT THOUGHTS crowd upon the mind, preventing sleep.
Secale corn Sec
Sensation in cutaneous nerves as if ants were crawling over skin, tending to excite and worry the patient, with a feeling of anxiety and apprehension, which prevents sleep; or sleep disturbed by frightful dreams.
Selenium Sel
Patient sleeps in cat-naps; awakes often during night or is easily aroused by slightest disturbance; awakes at precisely same hour every morning, before this usual rising time, when all his complaints are worse; hungry during night.
Sepia Sep
Sleeplessness during pregnancy or childbed or form uterine disease and menstrual irregularities; awakes early in the morning thinking she has been called; awakes too early and cannot go to sleep again; sad and depressed; irritable and indifferent; sleep restless and unrefreshing; awakes in a fright and screaming; cold feet.
Silicea Sil
Utter mental and physical inanition with abject despair and loss of all hope; total Sleeplessness from ebullitions; sleepy, but cannot sleep; fidgety, starts at least noise; sense of great debility; wants to lie down.
Staphisagria Staph
Sleeplessness from sexual neurasthenia, from spermatorrhoea; restless sleep; anxious dreams with emissions.
Sticta pulm Stict
Sleeplessness from nervousness, from cough, after surgical operations.
Stramonium Stram
Child awakes cross and irritable, as if frightened, knows no one, shrinks away or jumps out of bed; awakes with a solemn air of importance all things seem new to him; sleepless and tossing about.
Sulphur Sulph
Patient is aroused from sleep, and then wide awake and not ready to sleep again; CAT-NAPS, AROUSES OFTEN AND EVERY TIME WIDE AWAKE; sleeplessness from long-continued nursing; sudden jerking of legs as soon as he drops asleep; slightest noise at night awakens him.
Tabacum Tab
Insomnia of dilated heart; distressing leg-jerks when falling asleep; drowsiness, going off in the open air.
Tela aranea Tela
Sleeplessness in persons suffering from asthma; nervous cough.
Thuja Thuj
Insomnia from sycotic or syphilitic affections; sees apparitions on closing eyes; parts lain on painful from heat and restless, from mental depression; eyes wide open and all sleep banished as soon as he lies down.
Valeriana Valer
Insomnia from hysteria; wakeful and restless, can only fall asleep towards morning and then is troubled with vivid dreams; nightly itching; muscular spasms; cannot sleep before midnight.
Veratrum vir Verat-v
Restless, quarrelsome and cross; insomnia of acute fevers, of puerperal fever and of puerperal mania, or from the excitement preceding or following epileptic fits; melancholia activa.
Zincum sulph Zinc-s
Fitful insomnia, coming and going without apparent cause; two or three nights he is sleepless, with shifting pains; drowsiness, with frequent gaping, and yet cannot sleep, head feels so light; during sleep cries out, awakens with fear; limbs and body jerk; intolerable itching of the skin at night without eruption; sensation as if bugs were crawling from feet to knees, preventing sleep.